Word: linguistic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three panelists at a colloquium titled "How to Be Good," the noted linguist told students, "This is the time in your life when you'll be free to consider moral questions. Later in life you're going to be inside institutions and you're going to internalize their values...
...will feature such speakers as famed Italian author and linguist Umberto Eco as well as presentations from academics...
...necessary to insure that the role of English as the common language of the state of California is preserved and enhanced" and requires that no law be made that "diminishes or ignores the role of English." Nationally, a Washington-based group called U.S.English -- boasting 200,000 members and a linguist, former California Senator S.I. Hayakawa, as its honorary chairman -- is waging a direct-mail campaign to raise money and lobby for a constitutional amendment that would honor English as the country's single official language...
NEARLY 80 YEARS after the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure came upon his discovery that the sign, doublefaced by nature, hides its meaning behind the surface of language, editor Marshall Blonsky claims in his introduction that the science of semiotics has reached a point of critical paralysis, suspended somewhere in between the realms of theory and practice, and undermined by the literal crisis in meaning that it originally set out to study...
...child of the Bronx, Pinckney visited the other New York boroughs, * sampling different styles like a linguist studying accents. In Manhattan, he learned power, in Queens finesse. Brooklyn showed Pinckney the attraction of flamboyance, but it is unlike him to display any. Massimino's preaching of "the perfect game" impressed the 6-ft. 9 1/2-in. senior center and fascinated him. "On a one-shot deal, we can beat anyone in the United States," the coach urged, and had Pinckney not believed him, would what the others thought have mattered? Though only by two points and a rebound statistically, he outplayed...